Episode 2: A Product Manager Looking for Her Next Moby Dick

Blind Date With a Book

This is Blind Date With a Book, the podcast that matches guests up with their literary soulmates using dating app questions. In each episode, hosts Kristen Evans, Rachel Mans McKenny, and Elena Nicolaou go head-to-head to give the best recommendation. This week’s show also features a discussion of Moby Dick in quarantine and what it’s like to be in tech today.

The guest: Carrie Tian

The picks:

• Elena Pick One: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (https://www.bookculture.com/book/9780802129628)
• Kristen Pick One: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (https://www.bookculture.com/book/9781328764522)
• Rachel Pick One: Weird but Normal by Mia Mercado (https://www.bookculture.com/book/9780062942807)
• Elena Pick Two: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour (https://www.bookculture.com/book/9780358380887)
• Kristen Pick Two: The Heavens by Sandra Newman (https://www.bookculture.com/book/9780802147974)
• Rachel Pick Two: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (https://www.bookculture.com/book/9780525541349)

Where to find us:

Find our show online at blinddatewithabookpod.com and @bookmeetcute on Twitter and Instagram. Please follow and tell us all the books you've fallen in love with.

Kristen Evans: Twitter @paperalphabet,

Rachel Mans McKenney: Twitter @rmmckenny, Instagram @rachelmansmckenney

Elena Nicolaou: Twitter @elenawonders, Instagram @booksandelena

Carrie Tian: Twitter @carrietian, Website https://carrietian.com/